Maybe it was the character Miranda Priestly, a fashion magazine editor so powerful she could terrify underlings without even raising her voice, that pushed her to do it. “The offer was to my mind slightly, if not insulting, not perhaps reflective of my actual value to the project,” Streep tells .

I thank you kindly for your visit and wish you a lovely stay!

.” But despite a truckload of awards and a reputation as the greatest actress on the planet, Streep had always been reluctant to negotiate for more pay.

Even after earning a greenlight, director David Frankel was a ball of nerves during the first half of the 55-day-shoot in New York. He didn’t want her to be working at all; he hated that she worked nights.

She was always fragile when we shot late.” There were considerable problems scouting locations on a tight budget.

“For a lot of us, it was our first big thing,” Frankel says. It was possible this could be the end of the road for us.” Instead, “The Devil Wears Prada” served as a career launching pad for almost everybody involved. audiences to Emily Blunt and changed the trajectory of Anne Hathaway’s career.